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• Ex-Reform leader Preston Manning picked to chair review of Alberta’s COVID response

  19-01-2023 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Premier Danielle Smith has struck a committee to investigate how the Alberta government responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and has appointed former Reform Party leader Preston Manning to chair it.
  Smith, in a statement, says Manning and the panel will take feedback virtually from experts and the public, then issue a final report and recommendations by Nov. 15.
  Manning is to pick the other panel members subject to approval by Smith.
  The budget is $2 million, and Manning is to be
  
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• Three young players jump from Whitecaps’ development squad to MLS team

  19-01-2023 22:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Ali Ahmed knows his new Major League Soccer contract doesn’t mean the hard work has come to an end. 
  Moving from the Vancouver Whitecaps’ development squad in the MLS Next Pro League to the first team this season is simply a new beginning for the 22-year-old Canadian wingback.
  “Just because I made the jump, that doesn’t mean it’s time to sit back and relax,” Ahmed said. “Of course, I’m trying to absorb everything I can and le
  
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• Follow Your Heart Benefit Concert in Harrison Hot Springs coming ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-01-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  
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• 2023 will be the year of the EV - Chilliwack Progress

  19-01-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Ottawa spends additional $80M on Inuvik airport upgrades

  19-01-2023 22:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  INUVIK, N.W.T. — The federal government is increasing its funding contribution for upgrades to an airport in the Northwest Territories by $80 million. 
  It has now spent $230 million to extend and modernize the runway at Inuvik’s airport.
  Ottawa says this will make the airport more suitable for larger and heavier aircraft, and enhance the Canadians Armed Force’s ability to operate in the Arctic. 
  Inuvik’s Mike Zubko Airport acts as a forward operating base for th
  
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• Midfielder David Choiniere signs new multi-year deal with CPL champion Forge FC

  19-01-2023 22:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — Attacking midfielder David Choiniere has signed a new multi-year contract with Forge FC.
  The 25-year-old from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., scored in Forge’s 2-0 championship win over Atletico Ottawa in October. The goal marked his ninth in knockout matches for the Hamilton-based team.
  “We are extremely happy to have David continue with us in Hamilton,” Costa Smyrniotis, Forge’s director of football and business, said in a statement. “David has pl
  
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• Fired CF Montreal reserve squad coach apologizes for past social media comments

  19-01-2023 22:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A soccer coach who was fired this month over years-old Twitter comments suggesting the former premier of Quebec should be assassinated is publicly apologizing.
  Sandro Grande was named CF Montreal’s reserve squad coach on Jan. 9 but was fired less than a day later after a political backlash over his hiring.
  Grande was under fire over comments he made after the 2012 Quebec election night shooting outside a Parti Québécois gathering. He notably wrote on Twitter
  
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• Federal government should direct RCMP to end use controversial neck hold: NDP leader

  19-01-2023 21:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino should push back against the RCMP continuing to use a controversial neck hold.
  Mendicino directed the RCMP to stop using the “carotid control” technique in a mandate letter given to Commissioner Brenda Lucki last year, but the national police force told CBC News this week that the practice has not been banned. Singh says Mendicino should pressure Lucki to change the policy.
  A paper published last fall
  
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• How ground-penetrating radar is used to find unmarked graves at residential schools

  19-01-2023 21:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Ground-penetrating radar is the technology behind the discoveries of what are believed to be unmarked burial sites on the grounds of former residential schools, by providing communities with the first glimpses of physical evidence of possible graves.
  But it is not well understood, and is being used to fuel misinformation about the findings.
  The Truth and Reconciliation Commission that investigated the residential school system and its legacy estimated around 6,000 Indigenous child
  
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• Serious motor vehicle accident closes Clearbrook Road in south Abbotsford Thursday morning

  19-01-2023 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — A three-vehicle collision Thursday morning on Clearbrook Road in Abbotsford resulted in the closure of the road between Huntingdon Road and King Road.According to a tweet from the Abbotsford Police Department just before 10 a.m. on Thursday (Jan. 19), three vehicles were involved in a collision, including one car that flipped.No serious injuries were reported as of 9:51 a.m., Abby PD said on Twitter. Police estimated the road would remain closed for several hours while police
  
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• Panthers coach Maurice fined for complaining about refs after loss to Leafs

  19-01-2023 21:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — The NHL has fined Florida Panthers head coach Paul Maurice US$25,000 after he complained about the officiating in his team’s recent 5-4 overtime loss at Toronto.
  The Maple Leafs had seven power plays to Florida’s three in Tuesday’s game, and scored on two of them.
  After the game, Maurice said he didn’t know “what the hell” the referees were doing.
  The fine money will go to the NHL Foundation charity.This report by The Canadian Press was first
  
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• Park board passes motion to advance multi-use biking, pedestrian trail on Vedder Mountain

  19-01-2023 21:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CULTUS LAKE — Commissioners from the Cultus Lake Park Board, the governing body for Cultus Lake Park, have passed a motion that paves the way for the construction of a multi-use trail that would connect Cultus Lake with the north side of Vedder Mountain within the City of Chilliwack.More specifically, commissioners approved a motion at its meeting Wednesday night (Jan. 18) that directs Chief Administrative Officer Joe Lamb to work with the Fraser Valley Mountain Bikers Association and move
  
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• Langley Realtor charged with assaulting Alberta Mountie during ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-01-2023 20:45 via news.google.com
  
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• Canada to repatriate six women, 13 children from Syrian detention, lawyer says

  19-01-2023 20:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The lawyer for six Canadian women and 13 children being held in Syrian camps says the federal government has agreed to help bring them home.
  Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon says a “mutually acceptable” agreement was reached today with Ottawa to repatriate the 19 Canadians.
  The Canadians are among the many foreign nationals in Syrian camps run by Kurdish forces that reclaimed the war-torn region from the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
  Family members of the wo
  
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• Family looking for answers in fatal stabbing of Abbotsford man - Chilliwack Progress

  19-01-2023 20:38 via news.google.com
  
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• Retired senator ‘stunned’ by reports about Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond’s heritage

  19-01-2023 20:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Retired senator Lillian Dyck says she was “stunned” to hear questions about the Indigenous heritage of former judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, whose career she had recognized as barrier-breaking.
  Dyck, who is Cree and Chinese Canadian, says she celebrated as Turpel-Lafond became Saskatchewan’s first Indigenous female judge in 1998.
  The professor emeritus in psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan says it was “wonderful” to know Turpel-Lafond had overcome the num
  
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• No pharmacare bill this year would be a deal-breaker, says NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh

  19-01-2023 20:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says if the Liberal government does not introduce a pharmacare bill in the House of Commons this year, he will consider it a deal-breaker.
  Both parties signed a confidence-and-supply agreement last March, in which the NDP agreed to support the minority Liberal government in key votes until 2025.
  In exchange, the Liberals would advance some NDP priorities, including by passing pharmacare legislation by the end of this year.
  Singh says health care w
  
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• Supreme Court says it hasn’t found abortion opinion leaker

  19-01-2023 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Thursday it has not determined who leaked a draft of the court’s opinion overturning abortion rights, but that the investigation continues.
  Eight months after Politico published its explosive leak detailing the draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade, the court said its investigative team “has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence.”
  Never before had
  
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• Ottawa’s Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway to get an Indigenous name - Chilliwack Progress

  19-01-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
  Ottawa’s Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway to get an Indigenous name  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Feds send $930 million to curb ‘crisis’ of US West wildfires - Chilliwack Progress

  19-01-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
  Feds send $930 million to curb ‘crisis’ of US West wildfires  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Priestley’s ‘Offside’ paints a complex portrait of former Leafs owner Harold Ballard

  19-01-2023 20:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Jason Priestley wants Canadians to draw their own conclusions about Harold Ballard, the controversial former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
  Priestley is the narrator and director of “Offside: the Harold Ballard Story,” which will make its CBC debut on Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern. Priestley said that as he researched Ballard and interviewed former Maple Leafs and sports reporters from Toronto, he was struck by how everyone had a different take on the irascible sports m
  
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• Abbotsford completes eight projects in 2022, including pool upgrades and bridge replacement, thanks to federal funding

  19-01-2023 20:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Federal funding has enabled the City of Abbotsford to complete eight infrastructure projects across Abbotsford in 2022, including an update to the Centennial Outdoor Pool.In a news release Thursday (Jan. 19), Abbotsford city officials touted a federal allocation of $6.3 million received in 2022, and the city utilized those funds to upgrade its municipal pool and replace a bridge at Campbell Road and Interprovincial Highway, among many projects.The federal Community Works Fund
  
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• Curling persistence pays off for Northwest Territories skip Kerry Galusha

  19-01-2023 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Kerry Galusha has seen some things.
  She was a wide-eyed junior curler at the 1998 Canadian women’s championship in Regina, which was a heralding of the hometown Sandra Schmirler team that had just won the first women’s Olympic gold medal awarded in the sport.
  “It was absolutely crazy. They were absolute celebrities to everybody, even the other teams,” Galusha recalled. “It was pretty cool to be there and experience that.”
  She was the alternate for the joint Yu
  
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• Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario reinstates betting on UFC events in province

  19-01-2023 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Ontario bettors can again wager on Ultimate Fighting Championship events.
  The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) reinstated betting on UFC events in the province Thursday.
  On Dec. 1, the organization required all registering gaming operators in Ontario to stop offering and accepting bets on UFC fights.
  The AGCO said the order to stop wagers on UFC events was made due to concerns about non-compliance with betting integrity requirements after the commission learned of
  
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• Surge of discount airlines making Canada’s pilot shortage worse ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-01-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Quebec man charged with kidnapping U.S. couple in 2020 to testify at his own trial

  19-01-2023 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec man charged in the case of a couple from Upstate New York who were kidnapped and smuggled into Quebec in September 2020 will testify in his own defence.
  Defence lawyer John T. Pepper Jr. told the jury in an opening statement that Gary Arnold is expected to take the stand today.
  Arnold faces seven charges including kidnapping, unlawful confinement, extortion and conspiracy.
  The Crown says that Sandra and James Helm of Moira, N.Y., were taken on Sept. 27, 2020 over a drug
  
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• Nelson police officer posthumously promoted to detective - Chilliwack Progress

  19-01-2023 19:28 via news.google.com
  
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• Man involved in Chilliwack road rage incident gets one year driving ... - Hope Standard

  19-01-2023 19:20 via news.google.com
  
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• Man involved in Chilliwack road rage incident gets one year driving ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-01-2023 19:20 via news.google.com
  
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• Strong goaltending the backbone of Quebec Remparts success this season

  19-01-2023 19:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  William Rousseau says a single morning skate last season altered the trajectory of his junior hockey career.
  Rousseau was struggling in net for the Quebec Remparts during a trip through the Maritimes, and goalie coach Pascal Lizotte was unavailable because he was unable to travel with the team.
  Seeing that Rousseau needed some pointers, head coach Patrick Roy put him through a training session instead and changed the way the young goalie approaches his play.
  “I think there’s a switch
  
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• Home of Los Angeles FC, Angel City FC to be known as BMO Stadium under new deal

  19-01-2023 19:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BMO is joining forces with Los Angeles FC and Angel City FC, with the soccer teams’ shared home now known as BMO Stadium.
  The change from Banc of California Stadium took effect Thursday.
  BMO becomes a founding partner and official bank of Angel City, joining other blue-chip sponsors such as Chevrolet, Heineken and Tecate in partnering with the second-year National Women’s Soccer League franchise. BMO also becomes the official bank of LAFC. 
  For Julie Uhrman, Angel City’s c
  
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• Calgary Stampeders re-sign Canadian linebacker Cameron Judge

  19-01-2023 18:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders re-signed Canadian linebacker Cameron Judge to a two-year contract Thursday.
  Judge, Calgary’s nominee for the CFL’s top Canadian award last season, was eligible to become a free agent Feb. 14.
  “Cameron Judge makes our team better,’ Calgary head coach/GM Dave Dickenson said in a statement. “We’re excited to keep him in Calgary and look forward to watching him continue to excel as a Stampeder.”
  Judge led the CFL in fu
  
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• Chilliwack resident and former refugee speaks out on the rights of women in Iran

  19-01-2023 18:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Since coming to Canada from Iran, Chilliwack resident Ghazaleh Nozamani has sought to better herself and pursue a number of interdisciplinary opportunities in the vocational, political and community realm.She’s currently working as an estimator and project coordinator in the trades towards her Red Seal certification, and serves as a member, representative and committee leader for the B.C. Insulators Union Local 118. She also plays a vital role on the executive board of b
  
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• Quebec police identify three victims of propane explosion last week

  19-01-2023 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec provincial police have formally identified three people who died after an explosion last week at a propane facility north of Montreal.
  Police say the victims are Céline Pilon, 65; France Desrosiers, 65; and Christophe Paradis, 26.
  Authorities found the remains of the three people on Monday at the site of Propane Lafortune in St-Roch-de-l’Achigan, about 50 kilometres north of Montreal.
  The company’s owner had said two of the missing people were employees
  
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• Military shrinking footprint in Middle East to free up troops for other missions

  19-01-2023 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces is shrinking its footprint in the Middle East to free up troops for missions in Europe and elsewhere.
  Vice-Admiral Bob Auchterlonie revealed the plan in an interview with The Canadian Press as the military struggles with both a personnel shortage and growing demands in other parts of the world.
  Auchterlonie says Canada will maintain a presence in the Middle East, including with a logistical hub in Kuwait and military training missions in Jordan, Lebanon a
  
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• Judge reserves bail decision for Saskatchewan sisters who claim ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-01-2023 18:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Dave's Roadhouse Music to sell its last guitar in Chilliwack by the ... - Hope Standard

  19-01-2023 18:16 via news.google.com
  
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• Dave's Roadhouse Music to sell its last guitar in Chilliwack by the ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-01-2023 18:16 via news.google.com
  
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• Murray edges Kokkinakis after 4 a.m. at Australian Open

  19-01-2023 18:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Andy Murray and Thanasi Kokkinakis played deep into the night at the Australian Open, facing down exhaustion and each other for more than 5 1/2 hours in a second-round match until Murray emerged with a 4-6, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5), 6-3, 7-5 victory that ended at just past 4 a.m.
  They began playing on Thursday and finished on Friday at Margaret Court Arena in the chill of a temperature that dipped below 60 degrees Fahrenheit (15 degrees Celsius) and before hundreds of e
  
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• Canada, U.S. to finish women’s hockey Rivalry Series with two games in Quebec

  19-01-2023 18:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Canada’s women’s hockey team needs back-to-back wins against the U.S. to win their Rivalry Series.
  The seven-game series will conclude with games Feb. 20 at Colisée Vidéotron in Trois-Rivières and Feb. 22 at Place Bell in Laval, Que., Hockey Canada announced Thursday.
  The U.S. took the first three games 4-3 in a shootout in Kelowna, B.C., 2-1 in Kamloops, B.C., and 4-2 in Seattle.
  Canada won the next two games by scores of 3-2 in Henderson, Nev.,
  
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• Blue Bombers agree to terms with Canadian fullback Mike Miller

  19-01-2023 18:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers agreed to terms Thursday with Canadian fullback Mike Miller on a one-year contract extension.
  The six-foot, 221-pound Miller, a native of Riverview, N.B., was slated to become a free agent next month, but instead will play a sixth season with Winnipeg.
  Miller is the CFL’s all-time leader in special-teams tackles with 226. He had 16 special-teams tackles in 2022 and a forced fumble in 18 regular-season games.
  He added four special-teams tackles in
  
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• VIDEO: Young orcas caught showboating off Greater Victoria - Chilliwack Progress

  19-01-2023 18:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack Giants mourn the passing of football coach Nick Knoke

  19-01-2023 17:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack Giants youth football organization is mourning the sudden passing of one of its coaches, Nick Knoke.The Giants delivered a heartfelt tribute on social media Wednesday (Jan. 18) to Knoke, who was a former Giant himself, a dedicated coach, friend, husband and father.“It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of our dear friend, former Giant and Coach, Nick Knoke,” the Giants wrote on Facebook Wednesday. “Nick was a loving husba
  
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• World-record holder Bulldog Hanover captures 2022 Cam Fella Award

  19-01-2023 17:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Another prestigious honour for Bulldog Hanover.
  The world-record harness racer captured the 2022 Cam Fella Award, Standardbred Canada announced Thursday. The honour is presented in recognition of extreme effort and dedication to Canadian harness racing by an individual or group.
  The connections of Bulldog Hanover will received the honour Feb. 4 at the O’Brien Awards in Mississauga, Ont.
  Bulldog Hanover won the $810,000 Open Pace to conclude the US$6.7-million Breeders Crown
  
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• Lawyer: Gun used by child who shot teacher was ‘secured’

  19-01-2023 17:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The family of a 6-year-old boy who shot and wounded his teacher in Virginia said Thursday that the gun he used had been “secured.”The family’s statement was released by an attorney and did not elaborate further on where the 9mm handgun was kept. The family also was not identified.“Our family has always been committed to responsible gun ownership and keeping firearms out of the reach of children,” the statement said. “The firearm
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Bringing more nurses to B.C.

  19-01-2023 17:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  In my community office, we hear from a lot of people who are concerned about having access to quality healthcare, whether for themselves, their children, or another family member. We have incredible health care practitioners here in British Columbia, but since the global pandemic, our healthcare system has been stretched.
  Our government knows how important it is that British Columbians have the care they need, when they need it, and that’s why we’re taking steps to build a stronger,
  
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• Slide keeps residents out of two Campbell River, B.C., condos for another night

  19-01-2023 17:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. — About 30 people living in two condominiums in Campbell River, B.C., remain out of their homes after two small slides on the hill behind the buildings.
  An evacuation order was issued for the properties in the 700 block of Island Highway South after the slides came down Tuesday.
  No one was hurt, but the mud and debris demolished a ground-level covered parking area behind one of the condos.
  Acting city manager Drew Hadfield said in a statement Wednesday that the hillsid
  
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• More universities reviewing honorary degrees given to Mary Ellen ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-01-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Lightning’s Steven Stamkos scores 500th NHL goal against Canucks - Chilliwack Progress

  19-01-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Colorado girl, 13, arrested after 100 mph highway chase - Chilliwack Progress

  19-01-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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